. >> host: often legislators, reports government officials compare u.s. broadband penetration to south korea's and say, you know, we need to achievement and that. achieve that. what have you found in your time in the u.s.? are we way behind? >> guest: there was of a time, i mean, i was in korea for ten years until five years ago, and back at that time the u.s. was behind. and we always used to compare korean broadband penetration rates. the apartment i lived in had fiberoptics to my apartment, you know, korea was a market where we saw early adoption of stock trading through the internet, of travel reds vegases through the internet -- reservations through the internet. so it was facilitated by that broadband coverage. but very steadily over the last few years the u.s. has been picking up, and now we're at the point where in terms of broadband for the home as well as wireless technology, bandwidth is there, the speeds are there. you look at how a 4g has been rolled out in the u.s., and that facilitates so many of these applications and content of services t